2025-26 WITS Year End Readers Permission Slip

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This year, Writers in the Schools (WITS) is serving your child’s classroom. Each week, a professional local creative writer visits your child’s classroom to teach them how to write poetry, fiction, or creative non-fiction. The writer collaborates with the classroom teacher to make each lesson both educational and fun. Over the course of ~10–14 sessions, students explore their own stories and use words as a powerful tool of expression. In the 2025-2026  year, WITS will serve ~37 public K-12 schools and 2 Seattle Children’s Hospital departments.

Throughout the 2025-2026 academic year, WITS will serve ~6,000 students, about 50 of whom will participate in the WITS Year End Readings. The evenings are celebratory events and all student readers will receive a commemorative broadside of their piece. This year, your student has been selected by their WITS writer to participate in the Year End Readings. Congratulations!

The 2026 Year End Readings will be held on June 3 (elementary and select middle school students) and June 4 (select middle and high school students) at Town Hall Seattle. We would be honored to have your student as one of our featured readers. Please confirm your acceptance of this invitation by submitting the following permission slip.


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Acknowledgement of Release 

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I give Writers in the Schools (WITS), a program of Seattle Arts and Lectures (SAL), a literary non-profit, the following royalty-free rights: the right to audio and/or video record, publish, broadcast, distribute, and otherwise use writing produced by my child through the WITS program, including use in excerpted or condensed versions, in print, digital and all other forms of media; the right to use my child’s name, photographs or other images of my child involved in WITS and biographical information in all forms of media.

The rights granted to WITS include use for educational, editorial, promotional or any other lawful purpose, including for the purpose of promoting and/or raising funds for WITS and other SAL programs. I understand that all rights will revert to my child upon publication.I understand that WITS will use reasonable efforts to include a credit for my child (as his or her name appears below) with any use of my child’s work or performance and to provide me or my child with a copy of any finished product containing my child’s work or performance. I understand that WITS will not share this information with anyone. 

If you have any questions, please email us at wits@lectures.org or call 206.621.2230. (Student: If you are over 18 years of age, you must complete and sign this form yourself and all references to “my child” shall be deemed references to you.)
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I accept this invitation to read a piece of my original writing at the annual WITS Year End Readings on June 3 (elementary and select middle school students) or June 4 (select middle and high school students). WITS staff will confirm on which day your student will read in the late spring.
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We ask each student reader to find a time to connect 1:1 with their WITS writer prior to May 29, 2026 to check in about their piece and practice reading it aloud. Can your student commit to doing this?
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We ask each student reader to arrive by 5pm on the evening of their reading, in order to do a sound check before the reading begins at 6pm. Can you and your student commit to arriving at 5pm?

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First name of child *
Last name of child *

If your child’s name should be printed differently from the name above, please enter their name as they would like it to appear in print

Child's school *
If you answered "Other" please enter your child's school's name
Name of WITS writer *
Child's grade *
Name of classroom teacher *
Parent/guardian's name *

By writing my name, I declare that I am legal guardian of the child named above, and I have the full legal authority to sign this release, which I have read and fully understand and accept. (Student: if you are 18 years of age or older, please write your name)

Parent/guardian's email address *
Parent/guardian's phone number *
Student's email address (if applicable)
Student's phone number (if applicable)
Street Address *
City *
State *
ZIP Code *
Anything else you want to tell us about your student/your student's participation in the WITS Year End Readings?
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